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* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nono does this to her own sister, Nene, when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nono elbows Nene in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nono still gets caught herself and suffers an [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe even more]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome death]].
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* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nono does this to her own sister, Nene, during the final episode when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nono elbows Nene in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nono still gets caught herself and suffers an [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe even more]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome death]].
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* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nono does this to her own sister, Nene, when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nono elbows Nene in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nono still gets caught herself and suffers an even more gruesome death.
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* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nono does this to her own sister, Nene, when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nono elbows Nene in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nono still gets caught herself and suffers an [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe even more more]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome death.death]].
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** In the ''Franchise/ArchieComics''/''Film/FinalDestination'' sketch, when Death personally comes after Archie, Reggie, Betty and Veronica, Veronica offers Death a large sum of money as long he spares her and kills the others. Death accepts.
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** In the ''Franchise/ArchieComics''/''Film/FinalDestination'' ''ComicBook/ArchieComics''/''Film/FinalDestination'' sketch, when Death personally comes after Archie, Reggie, Betty and Veronica, Veronica offers Death a large sum of money as long he spares her and kills the others. Death accepts.
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Essentially a deadly on-the-fly version of GotVolunteered meets TheBait and the go-to move of the DirtyCoward and {{Jerkass}} in these type of situations. Their only concern is for their own safety after all, so they would have no problem sacrificing someone else to keep their own skin alive. Very prevalent in monster stories, especially ones that involve a ZombieApocalypse, though a KarmicDeath may (and usually will) shortly follow. Keep in mind, this is when someone ''deliberately'' sacrifices and pushes another in harm's way to save themselves.
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Essentially a deadly on-the-fly version of GotVolunteered meets TheBait and the go-to move of the DirtyCoward and {{Jerkass}} in these type of situations. Their only concern is for their own safety after all, so they would have no problem sacrificing someone else to keep their own skin alive. Very prevalent in monster stories, especially ones that involve a ZombieApocalypse, though a KarmicDeath may (and will usually will) shortly follow.follow. In some cases, though, the one getting pushed had shown themselves as so unsympathetic as to deserve it (and the pusher may have justifiably been trying to kill them anyway). Keep in mind, this is when someone ''deliberately'' sacrifices and pushes another in harm's way to save themselves.
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* Taken to a government policy level in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' through the Redeker Plan / the South African Plan / The Chang Doctrine / The Prochnow Plan across most countries. The book focuses mainly on the US but it's noted as policy in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and South Korea, too. Since it's known that zombies are attracted to high-density clusters of people, the plan dictates that "important" people are evacuated to a relatively well-barricaded safe haven while government messaging - in the USA's case, through the media - tells the general population to go elsewhere. In America, this is achieved by encouraging people to go to the Canadian wilderness, because low temperatures freeze zombies. The zombies will then be drawn to them and a large proportion of those people (if not all of them) will die, whether from exposure or from zombie attacks, but the core government will survive.
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* Taken to a government policy level in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' through the Redeker Plan / the South African Plan / The Chang Doctrine / The Prochnow Plan across most countries. The book focuses mainly on the US but it's noted as policy in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and South Korea, too. Since it's known that zombies are attracted to high-density clusters of people, the plan dictates that [[TheElitesJumpShip "important" people are evacuated to a relatively well-barricaded safe haven haven]] while government messaging - -- in the USA's case, through the media - -- tells the general population to go elsewhere. In America, this is achieved by encouraging people to go to the Canadian wilderness, because low temperatures freeze zombies. The zombies will then be drawn to them and a large proportion of those people (if not all of them) will die, whether from exposure or from zombie attacks, but the core government will survive.
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SisterTrope of DevouredByTheHorde, which usually follows in a lot of these situations. If the person is selfless, though, they could proclaim for the monsters to TakeMeInstead and perform a HeroicSacrifice. Not related to FedToTheBeast, which is when a villain uses this to make an example out of a hero or employer by feeding them to some monster they have. Compare to HumanShield which is using another person to take a projectile.
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SisterTrope of DevouredByTheHorde, which usually follows in a lot of these situations. If the person is selfless, though, they could proclaim for the monsters to TakeMeInstead and perform a HeroicSacrifice. Not related to FedToTheBeast, which is when a villain uses this to make an example out of a hero or employer by feeding them to some monster they have. Compare to HumanShield BulletproofHumanShield which is using another person to take a projectile.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': While Aladar knows that staying as a full group would keep the Carnotaur from eating anybody, Kron chooses to [[BadBoss allow there to be stragglers under the belief that they would slow down the predators]]. [[spoiler:This belief comes to bite him when the entire herd chooses to follow Aladar in standing together and face the Carnotaur, which then runs past the herd for the lone Kron.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': While Aladar knows that staying as a full group would keep the Carnotaur from eating anybody, Kron chooses to [[BadBoss allow there to be stragglers under the belief that they would slow down the predators]]. [[spoiler:This belief comes back to bite him when the entire herd chooses to follow Aladar in standing together and face the Carnotaur, which then runs past the herd for the lone Kron.]]
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* ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'': When the outbreak starts up at the high school, we see two girls, apparently friends, running away from some of the zombies while holding hands. Once of them gets grabbed and begs for help...and her friend callously tells her to let go and pries her hand off her to let the zombies take her. Too bad for her, she backs right into a zombie behind her a minute later.
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* ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'': When the outbreak starts up at the high school, we see two girls, apparently friends, running away from some of the zombies while holding hands. Once of them gets grabbed and begs for help...and her friend callously tells her to let go and pries her hand off her to let the zombies take her. Too bad Unfortunately for her, she backs right into a zombie behind her a minute later.later and suffers a KarmicDeath.
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** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for [=SpongeBob=], they likewise find [=SpongeBob=] under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw [=SpongeBob=] out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation just as he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", "Prehibernation Week", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for [=SpongeBob=], they likewise find [=SpongeBob=] under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw [=SpongeBob=] out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation just as he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for [=SpongeBob=], they likewise find him under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw him out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation when he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for [=SpongeBob=], they likewise find him [=SpongeBob=] under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw him [=SpongeBob=] out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation when just as he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, [[WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}} Brock]], Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods to try and eliminate the vampires there (with the hope of likewise saving Beth who was captured in an earlier outing), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her after he tries and fails a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight and attempts to flee. Ella, [[AffablyEvil still polite despite her undead status]], just helps him up and leaves him be before flying after Ella to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler: Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her and bringing her back to her master's manor.]]
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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, [[WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}} Brock]], Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods to try and eliminate the vampires there (with the hope of likewise saving Beth who was captured in an earlier outing), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her after he tries and fails a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight and attempts to flee. Ella, [[AffablyEvil still polite despite her undead status]], just helps him up and leaves him be before flying after Ella Sugar to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler: Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her and bringing her back to her master's manor.]]
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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the HalloweenEpisode two-parter, "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect", Will and Carlton are competing for the attention of a girl to bring to Hillary's Halloween party due to [[TheBet a bet]] they made to be the first to get a date for it. To convince the girl to pick him, Carlton makes up a story that has Will look like total scumbag while out on a date with another girl and Will happily pushing her into the pair when one of muggers when one of them threatens the two. Carlton shortly after swooping in to save her.
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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the HalloweenEpisode two-parter, "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect", Will and Carlton are competing for the attention of a girl to bring to Hillary's Halloween party due to [[TheBet a bet]] they made to be the first to get a date for it. To convince the girl to pick him, Carlton makes up a story that has Will look like total scumbag while out on a date with another girl and Will happily pushing her into the a pair when one of muggers mugger when one of them threatens the two. [[MilesGloriosus Carlton shortly after swooping in to save her.her]].
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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the HalloweenEpisode two-parter, "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect", Will and Carlton are competing for the attention of a girl to bring to Hillary's Halloween party due to [[TheBet a bet]] they made to be the first to get a date for it. To convince the girl to pick him, Carlton makes up a story that has Will look like total scumbag while out on a date with another girl and Will happily pushing her into a mugger when he threatens the two.
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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the HalloweenEpisode two-parter, "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect", Will and Carlton are competing for the attention of a girl to bring to Hillary's Halloween party due to [[TheBet a bet]] they made to be the first to get a date for it. To convince the girl to pick him, Carlton makes up a story that has Will look like total scumbag while out on a date with another girl and Will happily pushing her into a mugger the pair when he one of muggers when one of them threatens the two.two. Carlton shortly after swooping in to save her.
--> '''Mugger''': Alright punk, your money or your girlfriend.
--> '''Will''': My brother, you're making this too easy. ''(Instantly pushes the girl into the two)''
--> '''Mugger''': Alright punk, your money or your girlfriend.
--> '''Will''': My brother, you're making this too easy. ''(Instantly pushes the girl into the two)''
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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods in the hope of confronting the vampires there (with the hope of saving Beth who was captured earlier), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her when he tries and fails a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight and attempts to flee. Ella, still polite despite her undead status, just helps him up and leaves him be before flying after Ella to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler: Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her.]]
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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, [[WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}} Brock]], Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods in the hope of confronting to try and eliminate the vampires there (with the hope of likewise saving Beth who was captured earlier), in an earlier outing), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her when after he tries and fails a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight and attempts to flee. Ella, [[AffablyEvil still polite despite her undead status, status]], just helps him up and leaves him be before flying after Ella to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler: Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her.her and bringing her back to her master's manor.]]
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': In the climax of the Metal Virus arc, the heroes are beset by Zombots on Angel Island and have to hold out till Sonic and Silver can enact their plan to reverse the virus. Amy tries to save Eggman from a Zombot!Big but her hammer does nothing to him. However, Eggman uses the opportunity to kick her into Big and try and flee via a shuttle. He doesn't get far, as he slips on a likewise Zombot!Froggy and gets the virus on him anyway.
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': In the climax of the [[ZombieApocalypse Metal Virus arc, Saga]], the heroes ([[EnemyMine and Eggman and Metal Sonic]]) are beset by Zombots on Angel Island and have to [[LastStand hold out out]] till Sonic and Silver can enact their plan to reverse the virus. Amy tries to save Eggman from a Zombot!Big Zombot!Big, but her hammer does nothing to him. However, Eggman [[UngratefulBastard Eggman]] uses the opportunity to kick her into Big and [[DirtyCoward try and flee via a shuttle. shuttle]]. He doesn't get far, as [[LaserGuidedKarma he slips on a likewise Zombot!Froggy and gets the virus on him anyway.anyway]].
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* Popular phrase on bumper stickers, T-shirts, mugs, and the like: "If there's a ZombieApocalypse, I'm tripping you."
* This is called "Outrunning the Bear" in common parlance. The joke basically goes: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you." (Hence the image there).
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* Popular phrase on bumper stickers, T-shirts, mugs, and the like: "If there's a ZombieApocalypse, I'm tripping you."
* This is called "Outrunning the Bear" in common parlance. The joke basically goes: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you." (Hence the image there).
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Advanced D&D ''Player's Handbook'', Charm Person or Mammal druid spell. The spell description gives an example of a druid casting the spell on a character and asking them to hold back an attacking red dragon for just a minute or two to protect the druid from being killed.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Advanced D&D ''Player's Handbook'', Charm Person ''charm person or Mammal mammal'' druid spell. The spell description gives an example of a druid casting the spell on a character and asking them to hold back an attacking red dragon for just a minute or two to protect the druid from being killed.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** In "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her to handle.
** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for Spongebob, they likewise find him under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw him out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation when he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
** In "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her to handle.
** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for Spongebob, they likewise find him under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw him out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation when he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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** In "Sandy,Spongebob, [=SpongeBob=], and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] SpongeBob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her to handle.
** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search forSpongebob, [=SpongeBob=], they likewise find him under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw him out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation when he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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* Popular phrase on bumper stickers, t-shirts, mugs, and the like: "If there's a ZombieApocalypse, I'm tripping you."
* This is called "Outrunning the Bear" in common parlance. The joke basically goes: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you." (Hence the image there).
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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods in the hope of confronting the vampires there (with the hope of saving Beth who was captured earlier), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her when he tries and fails a IKnowYourInThereSomewhere fight and attempts to flee. Ella, still polite despite her undead status, just helps him up and leaves him be, and flies after Ella to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler: Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her.]]
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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods in the hope of confronting the vampires there (with the hope of saving Beth who was captured earlier), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her when he tries and fails a IKnowYourInThereSomewhere fight and attempts to flee. Ella, still polite despite her undead status, just helps him up and leaves him be, and flies after Ella to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler: Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her to handle.
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** In the ''Franchise/ArchieComics''/''Film/FinalDestination'' sketch, when Death personally comes after Archie, Reggie, Betty and Veronica, Veronica offers Death a large sum of money as long he spares her and kills the others. Death accepts.
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** In "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her tohandle. handle.
** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for Spongebob, they likewise find him under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw him out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation when he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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** In "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her to
** PlayedForLaughs in "Pre-Hibernation", when the townspeople of Bikini Bottom all hide under Patrick's rock to escape from Sandy and her obsessive search for Spongebob, they likewise find him under there (trying to hide after he finds her activities before hibernation too dangerous for his liking) and instantly throw him out into the open for her to find him. Luckily for him, she enters into hibernation when he confesses he doesn't like the activities she made him do.
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* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': During the vampire raid at the prom dance, once of Buffy's friends gets grabbed by a vampire trying to pull her through a window. Another girl rushes in to save her only for that girl to get grabbed instead and pulled through while the girl who she saved does nothing to help her.
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* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': During the vampire raid at the prom dance, once one of Buffy's friends gets grabbed by a vampire trying to pull her through a window. Another girl rushes in to save her her, only for that girl to get grabbed instead and pulled through while the girl who she saved does nothing to help her.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When Spike and another vampire try to escape from the Initiative, Spike throws the other vampire at the soldiers so he can get away. This could be seen as an inversion since its actually the monsters running from the (mostly) good guys.
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So you're in a monster or horror flick, surrounded by the nasties with one or more members. Hey there's an exit in sight, but you're sure to attract the beasts or killer soon as you make a dash for it. You may have some weapons on hand, but it's likely they won't be enough. Well, the monsters or killers do just want something to slaughter, they say live bait is always effective, and you have these wonderful pawns right next to you unawares. Hint, hint.
Essentially a deadly on-the-fly version of GotVolunteered meets TheBait and the go-to move of the DirtyCoward and {{Jerkass}} in these type of situations. Their only concern is for their own safety after all, so they would have no problem sacrificing someone else to keep their own skin alive. Very prevalent in monster stories, especially ones that involve a ZombieApocalypse, though a KarmicDeath may (and usually will) shortly follow. Keep in mind, this is when someone ''deliberately'' sacrifices and pushes another in harm's way to save themselves.
SisterTrope of DevouredByTheHorde, which usually follows in a lot of these situations. If the person is selfless, though, they could proclaim for the monsters to TakeMeInstead and perform a HeroicSacrifice. Not related to FedToTheBeast, which is when a villain uses this to make an example out of a hero or employer by feeding them to some monster they have. Compare to HumanShield which is using another person to take a projectile.
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* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nono does this to her own sister, Nene, when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nono elbows Nene in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nono still gets caught herself and suffers an even more gruesome death.
* ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'': When the outbreak starts up at the high school, we see two girls, apparently friends, running away from some of the zombies while holding hands. Once of them gets grabbed and begs for help...and her friend callously tells her to let go and pries her hand off her to let the zombies take her. Too bad for her, she backs right into a zombie behind her a minute later.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': PlayedForLaughs in Chopper's flashback, when Hiriluk and he are chased down by angry townspeople for their "medical help", Hiriluk kicks Chopper back so they can focus on him while he gets away. Chopper later gets into a fight with Hiriluk over that, but doesn't hold a grudge over it and the two laugh it off as their first argument together.
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': In the climax of the Metal Virus arc, the heroes are beset by Zombots on Angel Island and have to hold out till Sonic and Silver can enact their plan to reverse the virus. Amy tries to save Eggman from a Zombot!Big but her hammer does nothing to him. However, Eggman uses the opportunity to kick her into Big and try and flee via a shuttle. He doesn't get far, as he slips on a likewise Zombot!Froggy and gets the virus on him anyway.
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* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Hopper corners Flick and Ada, Filck tells her to stay hidden. Hopper grabs Flick telling he'll return the next year with a larger swarm of grasshoppers, just then a bird peeks its head out of its nest, and Hopper asks if it's another trick. When the bird "roars," Flick makes a run towards Ada's hiding spot, while Hopper, the bigger insect, [[spoiler: gets captured and served to the bird's hungry chicks.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': While Aladar knows that staying as a full group would keep the Carnotaur from eating anybody, Kron chooses to [[BadBoss allow there to be stragglers under the belief that they would slow down the predators]]. [[spoiler:This belief comes to bite him when the entire herd chooses to follow Aladar in standing together and face the Carnotaur, which then runs past the herd for the lone Kron.]]
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* ''Film/DeepRising'': Hanover and Joey are fleeing from the tentacle monsters, which are gaining on them. Joey yells that they have to slow them down; Hanover shouts back that they only way to do that is to feed them. While Joey is trying to figure out what the hell to feed them, Hanover shoots him in the leg. [[spoiler:Despite this, he manages to escape and in fact survives to the end of the movie, while Hanover [[KarmicDeath gets eaten]].]]
* ''Film/DemonKnight'': Roach forces Cordelia to join him in a run for his truck when the demons surround the hotel. When one ambushes them, he INSTANTLY shoves her towards it and runs back inside to save his own skin. Luckily Wally and Brayker manage to get her back into the hotel.
''Film/TheForceAwakens'': Han Solo throws a mook into the mouth of one of the Rathars pursuing him.
* In ''Film/LakePlacidVsAnaconda'', a group of sunbathing college girls are getting picked off and eaten by some of the giant crocodiles that are loose at the lake. When trying to figure out what to do, one girl, Tiffani, exclaims "I have an idea!" and shoves the girl next to her into an crocodile's mouth and runs away as her friend [[EatenAlive gets eaten.]]
* ''Film/TheMummyReturns'': Baltus Hafez is running away from the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie killer monkeys]] with two of his last remaining mooks when he prompty turns around and tells them they will have to give their lives so that he may escape, then continues running by himself. They stare at each other, obviously not on board with this idea, but are killed off seconds later anyway.
* ''Film/PitchBlack'': Johns suggests to wanted criminal Riddick that they use teenage Jack as bait to distract the man-eating alien creatures. [[EveryoneHasStandards Riddick doesn't take this suggestion well]], instead wounding Johns and leaving him for the creatures while the rest escape.
* ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'': When the snakes start to overwhelm the coach section of the plane, the irritable business man [[KickTheDog throws Mercedes' chihuahua at a large anaconda]] to buy him time to escape. Everyone else is horrified at this. He stands still justifying what he did and the anaconda starts to [[SwallowedWhole eat him]].
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* ''Literature/{{Devolution}}'': [[FatBastard Dr Reinhardt]] encourages Vincent to try to go for help when the Sasquatches are ''right outside''. They [[CruelAndUnusualDeath rip him to pieces]] and slowly torture him to death while everyone, including his wife Bobbi, are forced to listen. It's left ambiguous whether Reinhardt genuinely believed the Sasquatches were nonviolent but he refuses to own up to encouraging Vincent (and perhaps even giving him false information that he wouldn't be hurt) until Bobbi says he killed Vincent.
* In ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'', when Sarah Harding and Dodgson are hiding under an abandoned jeep, a few yards away from a T-rex nest, Dodgson is whispering, trying to formulate an escape, Sarah, [[spoiler: still furious that he pushed her overboard on the boat ride over]], comes up with her own plan. She [[spoiler: pushes him out of their hiding spot]], the adult T-rex notices and grabs [[spoiler: Dodgeson, and drops him in the middle of the nest.]] While Dodgeson screams [[spoiler: while being eaten by the rex's brood]], Sarah makes a break for it.
* Taken to a government policy level in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' through the Redeker Plan / the South African Plan / The Chang Doctrine / The Prochnow Plan across most countries. The book focuses mainly on the US but it's noted as policy in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and South Korea, too. Since it's known that zombies are attracted to high-density clusters of people, the plan dictates that "important" people are evacuated to a relatively well-barricaded safe haven while government messaging - in the USA's case, through the media - tells the general population to go elsewhere. In America, this is achieved by encouraging people to go to the Canadian wilderness, because low temperatures freeze zombies. The zombies will then be drawn to them and a large proportion of those people (if not all of them) will die, whether from exposure or from zombie attacks, but the core government will survive.
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* ''Series/DeadSet'': Patrick Goad does this repeatedly to show that he's irredeemable. He locks his own assistant outside of the office to be eaten, abandons his staff, and pushes a man in a wheelchair to the zombies chasing him just to slow them down. Less horrifically, but still earning the disgust of everyone, he grinds up the dead housemates' bodies to use as zombie food.
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the HalloweenEpisode two-parter, "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect", Will and Carlton are competing for the attention of a girl to bring to Hillary's Halloween party due to [[TheBet a bet]] they made to be the first to get a date for it. To convince the girl to pick him, Carlton makes up a story that has Will look like total scumbag while out on a date with another girl and Will happily pushing her into a mugger when he threatens the two.
* In the first ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' [[HalloweenEpisode Zombies special]], Tory, Carey and Grant tried this, though [[CaptainObvious since zombies aren't real]] they hired dozens of extras to dress up and act like zombies. When trying test ways to distract a zombie horde, Carey pushed Tory into a wheel chair, duct-taped him into it, and pushed him onto the horde. As Tory was "eaten" by the "zombies, Carey went around the large group that surrounded Tory, zig-zagged around a few stragglers attracted to the commotion, and made it to the finish line.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Polymorph", the crew lose various aspects of their personality because of an EmotionEater shapeshifting alien stowaway. Kryten [[LackOfEmpathy loses all empathy]], and consequently mutters behind their backs that he will sacrifice his teammates when they find the polymorph.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': In "Save the Last One," Shane and another survivor, Otis, are trying to limp away from a horde of Walkers right on them. Knowing they'll be caught if they keep going, Shane shoots Otis in the leg and leaves him at the mercy of the horde while he gets away.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Advanced D&D ''Player's Handbook'', Charm Person or Mammal druid spell. The spell description gives an example of a druid casting the spell on a character and asking them to hold back an attacking red dragon for just a minute or two to protect the druid from being killed.
* In the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'', this is the reason Clan Nosferatu participates in the Camarilla and Sabbat despite their interests not aligning with either organization. They believe that [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Nictuku]]]] are on the way to devour all Kindred. The more Kindred the Nosferatu surround themselves with, the more chance they have to escape while the monsters chow down on their less subtle sect-mates.
* The aptly titled ''Zombies!!'' game has a card where this can be played to trip up fellow survivors. The third rendition, "Mall Walkers" [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pic_zombies_3_card.jpg has artwork that even depicts]] a man running away laughing as an unfortunate survivor is mobbed by zombies.
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* In ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', Miles Chadwick pushes his companion Nima into the path of the ''Dilophosaurus'' pack in the hopes they'll eat her and let him escape. The ''Dilophosaurus'' [[KarmicDeath kill him first]] before rounding on Nima.
* ''Videogame/Tekken5'': In the intro cinematic, Heihachi and Kazuya are attacked by an army of JACK-4 robots and [[EnemyMine temporarily put their feud aside]] to deal with them. During the battle, however, Kazuya suddenly grabs Heihachi and tosses him into a crowd of robots, where they quickly surround and pin him. Kazuya uses this time to escape while the robots set off their self-destruct in an attempt to kill Heihachi, who curses Kazuya's name all the while.
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadArcade'': At one point, the protagonists spot a man hanging from a walkway over some Walkers. They rush to save him, but when the woman who's trying to pull him up has trouble doing so. He instead pulls her over the ledge and into the crowd of Walkers, then drops down and runs while they're distracted feeding on her.
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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Up until her death in Season 6, this had basically been South Dakota's escape tactic when running from the Meta, with two of her victims being Washington and even ''her own twin brother'', North Dakota. She eventually tried to do it to Delta too, until Wash, Church, and Caboose caught up with her while she was in the middle of transferring him to a storage unit to leave behind for the Meta while she escapes. To say Wash and Delta were ''not'' happy about South Dakota trying to use them as human shields to save her own skin is a huge [[{{Understatement}} understatement]].
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* In March of 2020, America's National Park Service shared a [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUSNypjWsAEdFwr?format=jpg&name=large humorous graphic]] through their twitter ([=@NatlParkService=]) that encouraged visitors to promote safety and social distancing practices while in the parks. Visitors were reminded [[https://twitter.com/natlparkservice/status/1244275302295121920 not to throw their "slower friends" to the bears]].
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* ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'': While the team is being chased by [[EliteMooks the Cloaks]], Film Brain trips [[SitcomArchnemesis Luke]]. This scene was actually risky in real life, too -- one of the ''many'' things that made this special TroubledProduction was the torrents of unexpected rain, which made the dirt road muddy and slippery, and thus dangerous to run down and do pratfalls on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': In "Dude of the Living Dead", Jonesy tries sacrificing Nikki to the zombie horde in an attempt to save himself when the group is cornered.
-->'''Jonesy:''' Here, take her! She's a bigger meal!
*''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': At the start of "Chapter 13", when [[CanisMajor The Black Hound]] has Hilda, David, Frida and a group of Marra cornered, Kelly, a Marra who had befriended Frida with the intention to make her a Marra as well, finally shows what a FalseFriend she truly is and pushes Frida towards the Black Hound as a distraction while she and the other Marra flee the scene. It's only thanks to Hilda distracting the Black Hound with a bag of potato chips that Frida escapes.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** In a sketch involving ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' investigating [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Crystal Lake]], they naturally run into Jason after the split up. When he confronts Fred and Daphne, Fred pushes Daphne into Jason for him to kill while he escapes. Scooby himself does this when Jason stabs at the barrels Shaggy and he were hiding in and manages to hit Shaggy. He tries to run, but Jason grabs his tail before he can get far.
** The season 3 premiere involved Seth Green, who was murdered in the previous season, and several regulars of the series coming back as zombies and attacking the studios. When Co-Creator Mathew Senreich and producer and (at the time) head of Adult Swim, Mike Lazzo, get stuck at an elevator with the zombies closing in on them, Mat pushes Mike into the crowd to buy himself time for the elevator to come.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her to handle.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama:'' In "Hook, Line, and Screamer" when Izzy and Owen encounter the killer, Owen screams, "I don't want to die! Here, take Izzy!" and pushes Izzy towards the killer. It turns out to have just been Chef in a costume, so she's fine, but still mad at Owen in the next episode.
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* Popular phrase on bumper stickers, t-shirts, mugs, and the like: "If there's a ZombieApocalypse, I'm tripping you."
* This is called "Outrunning the Bear" in common parlance. The joke basically goes: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you." (Hence the image there).
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So you're in a monster or horror flick, surrounded by the nasties with one or more members. Hey there's an exit in sight, but you're sure to attract the beasts or killer soon as you make a dash for it. You may have some weapons on hand, but it's likely they won't be enough. Well, the monsters or killers do just want something to slaughter, they say live bait is always effective, and you have these wonderful pawns right next to you unawares. Hint, hint.
Essentially a deadly on-the-fly version of GotVolunteered meets TheBait and the go-to move of the DirtyCoward and {{Jerkass}} in these type of situations. Their only concern is for their own safety after all, so they would have no problem sacrificing someone else to keep their own skin alive. Very prevalent in monster stories, especially ones that involve a ZombieApocalypse, though a KarmicDeath may (and usually will) shortly follow. Keep in mind, this is when someone ''deliberately'' sacrifices and pushes another in harm's way to save themselves.
SisterTrope of DevouredByTheHorde, which usually follows in a lot of these situations. If the person is selfless, though, they could proclaim for the monsters to TakeMeInstead and perform a HeroicSacrifice. Not related to FedToTheBeast, which is when a villain uses this to make an example out of a hero or employer by feeding them to some monster they have. Compare to HumanShield which is using another person to take a projectile.
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* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nono does this to her own sister, Nene, when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nono elbows Nene in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nono still gets caught herself and suffers an even more gruesome death.
* ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'': When the outbreak starts up at the high school, we see two girls, apparently friends, running away from some of the zombies while holding hands. Once of them gets grabbed and begs for help...and her friend callously tells her to let go and pries her hand off her to let the zombies take her. Too bad for her, she backs right into a zombie behind her a minute later.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': PlayedForLaughs in Chopper's flashback, when Hiriluk and he are chased down by angry townspeople for their "medical help", Hiriluk kicks Chopper back so they can focus on him while he gets away. Chopper later gets into a fight with Hiriluk over that, but doesn't hold a grudge over it and the two laugh it off as their first argument together.
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': In the climax of the Metal Virus arc, the heroes are beset by Zombots on Angel Island and have to hold out till Sonic and Silver can enact their plan to reverse the virus. Amy tries to save Eggman from a Zombot!Big but her hammer does nothing to him. However, Eggman uses the opportunity to kick her into Big and try and flee via a shuttle. He doesn't get far, as he slips on a likewise Zombot!Froggy and gets the virus on him anyway.
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* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Hopper corners Flick and Ada, Filck tells her to stay hidden. Hopper grabs Flick telling he'll return the next year with a larger swarm of grasshoppers, just then a bird peeks its head out of its nest, and Hopper asks if it's another trick. When the bird "roars," Flick makes a run towards Ada's hiding spot, while Hopper, the bigger insect, [[spoiler: gets captured and served to the bird's hungry chicks.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': While Aladar knows that staying as a full group would keep the Carnotaur from eating anybody, Kron chooses to [[BadBoss allow there to be stragglers under the belief that they would slow down the predators]]. [[spoiler:This belief comes to bite him when the entire herd chooses to follow Aladar in standing together and face the Carnotaur, which then runs past the herd for the lone Kron.]]
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* ''Film/DeepRising'': Hanover and Joey are fleeing from the tentacle monsters, which are gaining on them. Joey yells that they have to slow them down; Hanover shouts back that they only way to do that is to feed them. While Joey is trying to figure out what the hell to feed them, Hanover shoots him in the leg. [[spoiler:Despite this, he manages to escape and in fact survives to the end of the movie, while Hanover [[KarmicDeath gets eaten]].]]
* ''Film/DemonKnight'': Roach forces Cordelia to join him in a run for his truck when the demons surround the hotel. When one ambushes them, he INSTANTLY shoves her towards it and runs back inside to save his own skin. Luckily Wally and Brayker manage to get her back into the hotel.
''Film/TheForceAwakens'': Han Solo throws a mook into the mouth of one of the Rathars pursuing him.
* In ''Film/LakePlacidVsAnaconda'', a group of sunbathing college girls are getting picked off and eaten by some of the giant crocodiles that are loose at the lake. When trying to figure out what to do, one girl, Tiffani, exclaims "I have an idea!" and shoves the girl next to her into an crocodile's mouth and runs away as her friend [[EatenAlive gets eaten.]]
* ''Film/TheMummyReturns'': Baltus Hafez is running away from the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie killer monkeys]] with two of his last remaining mooks when he prompty turns around and tells them they will have to give their lives so that he may escape, then continues running by himself. They stare at each other, obviously not on board with this idea, but are killed off seconds later anyway.
* ''Film/PitchBlack'': Johns suggests to wanted criminal Riddick that they use teenage Jack as bait to distract the man-eating alien creatures. [[EveryoneHasStandards Riddick doesn't take this suggestion well]], instead wounding Johns and leaving him for the creatures while the rest escape.
* ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'': When the snakes start to overwhelm the coach section of the plane, the irritable business man [[KickTheDog throws Mercedes' chihuahua at a large anaconda]] to buy him time to escape. Everyone else is horrified at this. He stands still justifying what he did and the anaconda starts to [[SwallowedWhole eat him]].
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* ''Literature/{{Devolution}}'': [[FatBastard Dr Reinhardt]] encourages Vincent to try to go for help when the Sasquatches are ''right outside''. They [[CruelAndUnusualDeath rip him to pieces]] and slowly torture him to death while everyone, including his wife Bobbi, are forced to listen. It's left ambiguous whether Reinhardt genuinely believed the Sasquatches were nonviolent but he refuses to own up to encouraging Vincent (and perhaps even giving him false information that he wouldn't be hurt) until Bobbi says he killed Vincent.
* In ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'', when Sarah Harding and Dodgson are hiding under an abandoned jeep, a few yards away from a T-rex nest, Dodgson is whispering, trying to formulate an escape, Sarah, [[spoiler: still furious that he pushed her overboard on the boat ride over]], comes up with her own plan. She [[spoiler: pushes him out of their hiding spot]], the adult T-rex notices and grabs [[spoiler: Dodgeson, and drops him in the middle of the nest.]] While Dodgeson screams [[spoiler: while being eaten by the rex's brood]], Sarah makes a break for it.
* Taken to a government policy level in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' through the Redeker Plan / the South African Plan / The Chang Doctrine / The Prochnow Plan across most countries. The book focuses mainly on the US but it's noted as policy in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and South Korea, too. Since it's known that zombies are attracted to high-density clusters of people, the plan dictates that "important" people are evacuated to a relatively well-barricaded safe haven while government messaging - in the USA's case, through the media - tells the general population to go elsewhere. In America, this is achieved by encouraging people to go to the Canadian wilderness, because low temperatures freeze zombies. The zombies will then be drawn to them and a large proportion of those people (if not all of them) will die, whether from exposure or from zombie attacks, but the core government will survive.
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* ''Series/DeadSet'': Patrick Goad does this repeatedly to show that he's irredeemable. He locks his own assistant outside of the office to be eaten, abandons his staff, and pushes a man in a wheelchair to the zombies chasing him just to slow them down. Less horrifically, but still earning the disgust of everyone, he grinds up the dead housemates' bodies to use as zombie food.
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the HalloweenEpisode two-parter, "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect", Will and Carlton are competing for the attention of a girl to bring to Hillary's Halloween party due to [[TheBet a bet]] they made to be the first to get a date for it. To convince the girl to pick him, Carlton makes up a story that has Will look like total scumbag while out on a date with another girl and Will happily pushing her into a mugger when he threatens the two.
* In the first ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' [[HalloweenEpisode Zombies special]], Tory, Carey and Grant tried this, though [[CaptainObvious since zombies aren't real]] they hired dozens of extras to dress up and act like zombies. When trying test ways to distract a zombie horde, Carey pushed Tory into a wheel chair, duct-taped him into it, and pushed him onto the horde. As Tory was "eaten" by the "zombies, Carey went around the large group that surrounded Tory, zig-zagged around a few stragglers attracted to the commotion, and made it to the finish line.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Polymorph", the crew lose various aspects of their personality because of an EmotionEater shapeshifting alien stowaway. Kryten [[LackOfEmpathy loses all empathy]], and consequently mutters behind their backs that he will sacrifice his teammates when they find the polymorph.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': In "Save the Last One," Shane and another survivor, Otis, are trying to limp away from a horde of Walkers right on them. Knowing they'll be caught if they keep going, Shane shoots Otis in the leg and leaves him at the mercy of the horde while he gets away.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Advanced D&D ''Player's Handbook'', Charm Person or Mammal druid spell. The spell description gives an example of a druid casting the spell on a character and asking them to hold back an attacking red dragon for just a minute or two to protect the druid from being killed.
* In the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'', this is the reason Clan Nosferatu participates in the Camarilla and Sabbat despite their interests not aligning with either organization. They believe that [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Nictuku]]]] are on the way to devour all Kindred. The more Kindred the Nosferatu surround themselves with, the more chance they have to escape while the monsters chow down on their less subtle sect-mates.
* The aptly titled ''Zombies!!'' game has a card where this can be played to trip up fellow survivors. The third rendition, "Mall Walkers" [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pic_zombies_3_card.jpg has artwork that even depicts]] a man running away laughing as an unfortunate survivor is mobbed by zombies.
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* In ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', Miles Chadwick pushes his companion Nima into the path of the ''Dilophosaurus'' pack in the hopes they'll eat her and let him escape. The ''Dilophosaurus'' [[KarmicDeath kill him first]] before rounding on Nima.
* ''Videogame/Tekken5'': In the intro cinematic, Heihachi and Kazuya are attacked by an army of JACK-4 robots and [[EnemyMine temporarily put their feud aside]] to deal with them. During the battle, however, Kazuya suddenly grabs Heihachi and tosses him into a crowd of robots, where they quickly surround and pin him. Kazuya uses this time to escape while the robots set off their self-destruct in an attempt to kill Heihachi, who curses Kazuya's name all the while.
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadArcade'': At one point, the protagonists spot a man hanging from a walkway over some Walkers. They rush to save him, but when the woman who's trying to pull him up has trouble doing so. He instead pulls her over the ledge and into the crowd of Walkers, then drops down and runs while they're distracted feeding on her.
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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Up until her death in Season 6, this had basically been South Dakota's escape tactic when running from the Meta, with two of her victims being Washington and even ''her own twin brother'', North Dakota. She eventually tried to do it to Delta too, until Wash, Church, and Caboose caught up with her while she was in the middle of transferring him to a storage unit to leave behind for the Meta while she escapes. To say Wash and Delta were ''not'' happy about South Dakota trying to use them as human shields to save her own skin is a huge [[{{Understatement}} understatement]].
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* In March of 2020, America's National Park Service shared a [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUSNypjWsAEdFwr?format=jpg&name=large humorous graphic]] through their twitter ([=@NatlParkService=]) that encouraged visitors to promote safety and social distancing practices while in the parks. Visitors were reminded [[https://twitter.com/natlparkservice/status/1244275302295121920 not to throw their "slower friends" to the bears]].
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* ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'': While the team is being chased by [[EliteMooks the Cloaks]], Film Brain trips [[SitcomArchnemesis Luke]]. This scene was actually risky in real life, too -- one of the ''many'' things that made this special TroubledProduction was the torrents of unexpected rain, which made the dirt road muddy and slippery, and thus dangerous to run down and do pratfalls on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': In "Dude of the Living Dead", Jonesy tries sacrificing Nikki to the zombie horde in an attempt to save himself when the group is cornered.
-->'''Jonesy:''' Here, take her! She's a bigger meal!
*''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': At the start of "Chapter 13", when [[CanisMajor The Black Hound]] has Hilda, David, Frida and a group of Marra cornered, Kelly, a Marra who had befriended Frida with the intention to make her a Marra as well, finally shows what a FalseFriend she truly is and pushes Frida towards the Black Hound as a distraction while she and the other Marra flee the scene. It's only thanks to Hilda distracting the Black Hound with a bag of potato chips that Frida escapes.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** In a sketch involving ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' investigating [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Crystal Lake]], they naturally run into Jason after the split up. When he confronts Fred and Daphne, Fred pushes Daphne into Jason for him to kill while he escapes. Scooby himself does this when Jason stabs at the barrels Shaggy and he were hiding in and manages to hit Shaggy. He tries to run, but Jason grabs his tail before he can get far.
** The season 3 premiere involved Seth Green, who was murdered in the previous season, and several regulars of the series coming back as zombies and attacking the studios. When Co-Creator Mathew Senreich and producer and (at the time) head of Adult Swim, Mike Lazzo, get stuck at an elevator with the zombies closing in on them, Mat pushes Mike into the crowd to buy himself time for the elevator to come.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", while running from the Alaskan Bull Worm, [[IWarnedYou Spongebob]] threatens to trip [[BreakTheHaughty Sandy]] and leave her to be eaten unless she admits that the worm actually is too big for her to handle.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama:'' In "Hook, Line, and Screamer" when Izzy and Owen encounter the killer, Owen screams, "I don't want to die! Here, take Izzy!" and pushes Izzy towards the killer. It turns out to have just been Chef in a costume, so she's fine, but still mad at Owen in the next episode.
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* Popular phrase on bumper stickers, t-shirts, mugs, and the like: "If there's a ZombieApocalypse, I'm tripping you."
* This is called "Outrunning the Bear" in common parlance. The joke basically goes: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you." (Hence the image there).
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